Bristol detective DS George Cross investigates the suspicious death of a homeless man, and discovers a link to a cold case murder from years before.

Good detectives notice details. Great detectives connect them.

When a weather-beaten body is found on Clifton Downs, the police are quick to dismiss it as a quarrel among the unhoused community.

George Cross is a detective with experience of being overlooked. Unwilling to do the same to others, he sets out to find out what really happened to the dead man.

As George learns about a life that slowly unravelled, his investigation leads him to a decades-old murder. The question is how are the two deaths linked – and who killed each victim?

If anyone can find out, George Cross can. To him, unanswered questions are like loose threads – pulling on them usually reveals the truth…